Feeding device



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v Application 'fiie'a October 6, 1922. serial no. "592,351.

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Be it known that l, EDWARD J. R001), a citizen ot the United States of ixlTIQIlCit, and resident of Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa, have invented certain newand useful improvements in Feeding Devices, oi which the following is a specification. i. invention relatesto improvements in feeding devices, and the object of my im;

provcment is to sup-ply for open top feeding troughs in such devices a combination of division devices and a plurality of separately tiltable closures fortheir intersp aces, the combined device being; mounted to permit of its being n'ioved bodily away from the open top of the trough to permit of proper cleaning of the interior ofthe trough.

This object I have a complished by the means which are hereinafter described and illustrated in the accinnpanying drawing dn which Figs. 1 and 2 are like perspective views of feeding de-' containing my improved combination division devices and tiltable closures, Fig. l.

showing these in their lowered positions,

with asingle closuretilted upwardly, and other parts broken away. Fig. 2 shows said combination device as whole tilted up wardly away from the open top of one of tee feeding troughs aml r leasably support ed in that position. i

The feeding device shown aside from said combination, division. device and tiltable closure, is illustratve merely and may be varied in form and arrangement. In ta.ct,'this invention in the combination device men-- tioned, may be mounted movably upon any open top feeding trough or vessel, yet sub serve the same purposes. v

The numeral 1, denotes a relatively large container or hopper having a hinged top to permit of filling or refilling. This container may be single or of the double type shown, that is, it may have a single open top feeding trough 2 positioned along one side thereof and into which. opens a delivery throat to flow over an outwardly inclined floor by the action of gravity. The drawing shows two such troughs. V

The numerals 4-6 denote a rectangular bail whose end bars or arms 4 are pivoted to the opposite ends of the container or hopper 1 at 5, and this bail may be of channel shape or otherwise. A longitudinal channelbar 7' spaced from, parallelto the bail part 6' has its ends bent angularly and r'iv eted to the arms 4 thus providing a hollow or open frame positioned immediatelyover the open top of the-trough 2, and surround- 111g 1t. 7

As shown in Fig. 2, a number of crossb-ars 14 are positioned within said frame, spaced apart longitudinally, and having their ends bent angularly and riveted to the rats; n

inner parts or the frame-bars 6 and '7, or the inner ends ofthe bar-s 14L .ina y'be riveted to a fiat-bar 13 seated in the channel of the channel-bar 7, the bar 13 bein'g in turn riv eted to said bar 7. These. cross-bars 14,

when the frame is lowered cross the open top of the trough 2 and serve as division devices over the interspace'o-f. the troughso that the animal feeding in one interspace is confined thereto and prevented from interiering with other animals which may be I feeding in the adjacent interspaces.

The numeral 8 denotes a cylindric' rod passed longitudinally through" alin'ed holes infthe two end arms 4 and secured thereto, and the numeralt) denotes like closuresof oblong shape of a size suitable to cover the inter-spaces between the bars 14 and having raised side flanges 11' which are provided with alined holcs to 'ecciye the rod 8 whereby the rear end of'each closure is hinged upon said rod, to be tilted up or down as shown in saidFig. 1. The rear end of the closure 9 may have araised flange and the forward edge may have a dependingfiangc 10. 7 beyond the bail part 6 sov that a hog or other animal may lift its flange part 6 by using its snout. p v

In feeding devices or troughs-where'the division partitions or bars are fixedly mounted in the troughs, it is very ditlicult to efiiectively clean the trough and remove dirt or other adherent matter. Hogs especially, befoul the trough with mud, permits easy and thorough cleaning of the trough, as it is only necessary to swing'up wardly the frame 467 and secure it by a hook 12, so there is no impediment to cleanin it. i m

Tlaving described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure'by Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination, an open top trough,

fixed supporting-means. arms terminally pivoted'on said supporting-means,an open A. closure 9 is long enough to extend My device frame rigidly supported on said arms above I the open top of said trough and containing spaced cross-bars therealong, and closures hinged to said frame over the niterspeces 0f the cross-bars to swing upwardly and supported on the fi'ame, said arms when swung V upwardly, carrying with them send closures to Wholly uncover said trough. v

2. In combination, an open top trough open also along one side, a contalnel posltioned to abut upon end ha ving-1's throat delivering into said open side, a rfn'is pivoted on said conta ner at'theyear, an, open frame Sept. 71 922 s'Wing'upWa-rdly theiefi'oin, said arms when "swun upwardly eerrying said closures With them to clear the open top of the trough.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 5th dayof EDWARD J. noon. 

